Course Summary :

Taught by a Stanford-educated, ex-Googler and an IIT, IIM - educated ex-Flipkart lead analyst. This team has decades of practical experience in quant trading, analytics and e-commerce.

This course is a gentle yet thorough introduction to Data Science, Statistics and R using real life examples.

Let’s parse that.

Gentle, yet thorough: This course does not require a prior quantitative or mathematics background. It starts by introducing basic concepts such as the mean, median etc and eventually covers all aspects of an analytics (or) data science career from analysing and preparing raw data to visualising your findings.

Data Science, Statistics and R: This course is an introduction to Data Science and Statistics using the R programming language. It covers both the theoretical aspects of Statistical concepts and the practical implementation using R.

Real life examples: Every concept is explained with the help of examples, case studies and source code in R wherever necessary. The examples cover a wide array of topics and range from A/B testing in an Internet company context to the Capital Asset Pricing Model in a quant finance context.

What am I going to get from this course?

Use Linear regression in R to overcome the difficulties of LINEST() in Excel

Draw inferences from data and support them using tests of significance

Use descriptive statistics to perform a quick study of some data and present results

Pre-Requisites :

No prerequisites : We start from basics and cover everything you need to know. We will be installing R and RStudio as part of the course and using it for most of the examples. Excel is used for one of the examples and basic knowledge of excel is assumed.

Target Audience :

Yep! MBA graduates or business professionals who are looking to move to a heavily quantitative role

Yep! Engineers who want to understand basic statistics and lay a foundation for a career in Data Science

Yep! Analytics professionals who have mostly worked in Descriptive analytics and want to make the shift to being modelers or data scientists

Yep! Folks who've worked mostly with tools like Excel and want to learn how to use R for statistical analysis

Curriculum :

Section 1 - Introduction

1 :
You, This course and Us

2 :
Top Down vs Bottoms Up : The Google vs McKinsey way of looking at data

Reviews

Instructor :

Loonycorn A 4-ppl team;ex-Google.

Biography

Loonycorn is us, Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh. Between the four of us, we have studied at Stanford, IIM Ahmedabad, the IITs and have spent years (decades, actually) working in tech, in the Bay Area, New York, Singapore and Bangalore. Janani: 7 years at Google (New York, Singapore); Studied at Stanford; also worked at Flipkart and Microsoft Vitthal: Also Google (Singapore) and studied at Stanford; Flipkart, Credit Suisse and INSEAD too Swetha: Early Flipkart employee, IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Madras alum Navdeep: longtime Flipkart employee too, and IIT Guwahati alum We think we might have hit upon a neat way of teaching complicated tech courses in a funny, practical, engaging way, which is why we are so excited to be here on Unanth! We hope you will try our offerings, and think you'll like them :-)

Reviews

Average Rating

4 (6 Reviews)

samim anvar

posted 11 month before

Easy to Understand

I enjoyed this course, learned statistics along with R. I liked the teaching style of explaining statistical concept and then showing how to calculate it using R. This also have awesome course material. I like "loony Corn" courses and purchased
their other courses.

Jeetender Kumar

posted 6 month before

Very Irritating Background Music in videos

I like the course but there is very irritating and disturbing background music in every video .

ANURADHA BANERJEE

posted 6 month before

I have enjoyed this course. For me, it was a great refreshing of statistics and R. They explain a statistical concept and then show you how to calculate it using R. I feel that the course material is great and the teaching style is very enjoyable.

Anjali Mehta

posted 5 month before

Good course

It's good course for learning data science using R. Each concept explained in nice way.